Todd Wallace has more than 30 years experience dealing with federal income tax issues for complex structures and novel products.
Todd has advised tax equity investors (and sometimes others) on investments relating to billions of dollars of all varieties of tax credits, including solar and wind, low-income housing, new markets, historic rehabilitation, refined coal, carbon sequestration, and other more unusual tax credits. He also focuses on structured finance products and securitizations, particularly those involving income from tax-exempt bonds (such as tender option bonds and variable or fixed rate preferred stocks).
Todd is also the senior tax lawyer in the Firm's U.S. energy tax practice, working extensively for more than 30 years with federal income tax issues of particular interest to oil and gas (upstream, midstream, and downstream) and renewable energy clients.
Todd is coordinator of the Firm's Tax Practice in its Texas offices and has served as chair of the Firm's Tax Opinions Committee. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for the last 14 years.
Experience
Additional Publications
- November 2004
Federal and State Tax Shelter Developments, TEI Dallas Chapter - November 2004
Business Purpose Doctrine, TEI Dallas Chapter
Speaking Engagements
- November 17, 2015
TEI Dallas Chapter Tax Seminar
- The University of Chicago (J.D. with honors 1986; Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, Law Review); Vanderbilt University (B.A. summa cum laude 1983; Phi Beta Kappa)
- Texas
- The Best Lawyers in America